Following the June 20, 2020 digital Mass Poor People’s Assembly and March on Washington that drew millions of viewers, on July 16, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, held a well-attended Congressional briefing to demand a moral policy agenda to heal America. Legislators and other political leaders from both sides of the aisle were invited to attend the digital briefing, where campaign leaders laid out the specifics of the Moral Policy Agenda to Heal America: The Poor People’s Jubilee Platform.
The agenda is grounded in constitutional and moral values and offers concrete solutions to end the ongoing, concurrent crises of the five interlocking injustices: systemic racism, systemic poverty, militarism, ecological devastation, and the false moral narrative of extreme religious nationalism.
“It’s time that we lift from the bottom, which requires us to address all five of the interlocking injustices,” said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. “We cannot put more money in systemic racism, corporate interests and the war economy than we do in living wages, health care, public education and guaranteeing equal protection under the law. Poverty is lethal; systemic racism is lethal; COVID-19 is lethal. This agenda demands what must be now and after the election to heal the nation.”
Read A Moral Policy Agenda to Heal America: The Poor People’s Jubilee Platform. Watch the July 16 Congressional briefing.
United for Peace & Justice is proud to be a national mobilizing partner in the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
